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			A few days ago, I had to spend time in a town near my home, and I took the two pals Arslan and Drezbor as companions for a walk. We went into the forest near one of the castle of the neighbourhood, a deep and dark forest with an odd atmosphere, but the walk was really a pleasant moment, I enjoyed it particularly - and of course my two dogs did too. But when I looked at the photos, this particular atmosphere appeared again, and it really made me feel like writing a tale - the photos quality was generally rather bad, because of the dimness, but precisely it made the photos reflect this strange atmosphere. So let me write a tale for my two companions in this queer stroll..
		The castle owners had got several dogs, including a couple of pals of the same breed, so they were as like as two peas in a pod - except  one thing : the male was a little bigger than the bitch. They were together all the time. They were the beloved pets of the eldest boy of the family, and with him they did so much things that they learned a lot and became very resourceful. The boy often took them for a walk in the forest around the castle, a deep, dark, dense one which gave off always a queer atmosphere and even some feeling of unease in some precise places. In such a case, the boy asked his dogs not to go there. But once the boy was out for a journey, and the two dogs decided to leave the castle park for a walk - a run ! - in the forest. They arrived to a remote spot which seemed tell them not to move forward any more. But the dogs were intrepid ones and they were so curious too ... They exchanged a knowing look  and jumped together in the "forbidden" place. Right, the feeling of unease forced itself upon them, but they didn't mind and moved forward. A big stone overhung a small ravine, they jumped on it with zest, to gaze at the forest below them.   But them something strange happened. Instead of the forest vegetation, they began to saw different scenes, as clips of several films ; they saw troubadours singing and knights fightings, they saw the castle be attacked by brigands or by soldiers, they saw hate scenes and love scenes, work scenes and games scenes, and all kind of life scenes. But the last scene which appeared seemed to be a crucial one : a man was walking quietly with a little boy, as if they were either friends or related, but with the real ravine as a set, the man murdered the little boy. Then, strangely, the clips stopped and the two dogs saw definitively nothing else than the ravine.  They came back home, a bit disconcerted. But when, a few days later, they were out for a walk with the boy, they tried to lead him to the stone above the ravine ; but what a surprise ! The boy walked into this previously "forbidden" place without any hesitation, as if nothing was different any more, and neither him nor the dogs didn't feel any more the slightest  unease. It seemed that the family secret of the castle needed to be free from oblivion and then it vanished definitively - and this thanks to a couple of simple but helpful dogs of the castle ...
				22/10/10 Isabelle Coquinot